Wireless switch on my laptop

[Swift02]

I've just spent 30 minutes talking to a Belkin technical support person who has just talked me through setting up my wireless modem.

My laptop (an Advent) is wirless enabled, but whatever I do (and yes I double click on the little icon at the bottom right hand corner and click refresh to find new networks) it just fails to recognise the modem.

I don't want to go to the expense of buying a flash drive or wirless card as I have been told my laptop wireless facility is working properly.

Does someone have an idea of what could be the problem??

Thanks for reading this.

Swift02

[Sammy Snake]

My laptop has a manual switch at the front which switches the wireless on and off - has yours?

I spent three days trying to set mine up and was ready to chuck it through the front window when some kind person on here told me about the switch...did I feel thick!

[j2buttonsw]

The wireless modem (router?) may have the "display SSID" turned off. Assuming the wireless is switched on (enabled) you will not "see" it as an available network as it is invisible. You can connect to the modem (router?) directly via an ethernet cable or USB cable ie bypass the wirelessness and re-enable the display SSID.

[Ethel]

I was the same as SammySnake.

Mine doesn't even look like a switch or button or key - it looks like a light. It does light up when connected.

But when I first set up my wireless system I had to connect by hardwire first to go through the set up process and install my ISP software.